The Pentagon has asked for $200 billion in funding for the war in Iran, according to a military official and an administration official, a significant sum adding to the costs of an already divisive campaign.

The request has been sent to the White House, the military official said, which will review it before any request for funds is formally submitted to Congress. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the proposal. The request was reported earlier by The Washington Post.

https://archive.ph/lQVvK

I didn't see any mention of any increase in taxes to pay for it.

No doubt Trump will get his crayon out and draw a nice squiggly picture on it. If Congress has any sense they will reject it and mark it "Must do Better"

10 minutes ago, Bannoi said:

No doubt Trump will get his crayon out and draw a nice squiggly picture on it. If Congress has any sense they will reject it and mark it "Must do Better"

Does he get to wear a hat ?

9 minutes ago, Jim Blue said:

Does he get to wear a hat ?

A big red one with DUNCE written on it when he has to sit in the corner.

Instead of All the efforts you guys are putting into your circle session, why dont you take the time to write to your Congressman demanding he stop funding this evil war,

Feel free to post the letters you (say you will) send to your Congressman and Senator

59 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Instead of All the efforts you guys are putting into your circle session, why dont you take the time to write to your Congressman demanding he stop funding this evil war,

Feel free to post the letters you (say you will) send to your Congressman and Senator

Or maybe instead of posting a lame deflection, you start your own thread about what members of aseancom.com are doing to oppose the war.

3 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Or maybe instead of posting a lame deflection, you start your own thread about what members of aseancom.com are doing to oppose the war.

Got it. More fun to screech.

You dont think we should replenish our stocks after two weeks of target practice? We might have to slap around someone else

11 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Got it. More fun to screech.

You dont think we should replenish our stocks after two weeks of target practice? We might have to slap around someone else

Someone else? So the war is over? Come to think of it, you started claiming that almost as soon as it started.

1 minute ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Someone else? So the war is over? Come to think of it, you started claiming that almost as soon as it started.

LOL. Got it. You think Iran has a chance.

A troll post with an anti semetic reference has been removed.

40 trillion in about 3-4 months

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

4 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Got it. More fun to screech.

You dont think we should replenish our stocks after two weeks of target practice? We might have to slap around someone else

Got it more groveling before your deity in your hopeless quest to defend the impossible……anyway on topic so Donnie wants an extra 200 billion to fund his sielf inflicted calamity he’s brought on our country….nay the world….but can’t seem to bring himself to fund healthcare or disaster relief……haven’t heard about a tax increase on the wealthy yet…..and those are the ones making money off this fiasco…..hummm hey magga tired of winning yet???

2 minutes ago, Tug said:

hummm hey magga tired of winning yet???

Not at all, reading the pathetic Trump deranged lamentations from Americas powerless enemies and their net sock puppets is the source of great amusement with me.

Hey watch this: Do you think Iran was a threat to the USA?

The war was declared won on the first day. That is why it is significant - the government is asking for more money for a war that is already over (according to them). The national debt is spiraling out of control.

While people can say they will simply print more money, the risk to the economy is high. Prices are up and the mid terms are coming. And no, no one has forgotten the Epstein files.

4 minutes ago, Purdey said:

The war was declared won on the first day. That is why it is significant - the government is asking for more money for a war that is already over (according to them). The national debt is spiraling out of control.

While people can say they will simply print more money, the risk to the economy is high. Prices are up and the mid terms are coming. And no, no one has forgotten the Epstein files.

Bet money the old bankrupter in chief racks up more debt for nothing than he did in his last term…..hey magga tired of winning yet?

4 minutes ago, Tug said:

Bet money the old bankrupter in chief racks up more debt for nothing than he did in his last term…..hey magga tired of winning yet?

You oppose the war? You support Iran then?

1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

So Trump is doing the right thing. Got it.

Tell us what that is. Excessive boozing tonight?

1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

So Trump is doing the right thing. Got it.

Tell us what that is. Excessive boozing tonight?

3 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

You oppose the war? You support Iran then?

I support alliances and diplomacy as a last a VERY last resort war after OPEN discussions with the leaders of the country’s affected IE the effin world…..have you even opened your eyes to the affect it’s having on the population around you?PS I don’t drink.

7 minutes ago, Tug said:

I support alliances and diplomacy as a last a VERY last resort war after OPEN discussions with the leaders of the country’s affected IE the effin world…..have you even opened your eyes to the affect it’s having on the population around you?PS I don’t drink.

Nice avoidance. Do you support the war with Iran, yes or no?

5 hours ago, Yagoda said:

LOL. Got it. You think Iran has a chance.

Dishonest much? You claimed the war was over. It clearly wasn't. And isn't.

6 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Instead of All the efforts you guys are putting into your circle session, why dont you take the time to write to your Congressman demanding he stop funding this evil war,

Feel free to post the letters you (say you will) send to your Congressman and Senator

My congressional representatives are totally against this war.

Trump's new slogan ought to be: "Promises made, promises broken"

Not that MAGAs have any sort of conviction---well, the "convicted" ones get a pardon if they make a donation or try to overthrow democracy and beat police on Trump's behalf---but it is amusing how they abandon everything they claimed to believe in when their messiah just breaks yet another promise or guarantee. MAGAs flip flop like a Mexican Jumping Bean, no doubt an illegal one at that.

Let's go to the videotape.........

"No world's policeman!" (Whoops! Siren's blaring.)

"No foreign wars!" (Maybe Trump will declare Iran the 51st State, so technically it will no longer be foreign?)

"No forever wars!" ($200,000,000,000 kind of sounds like a down payment on forever)

"America First!" (Is Second close enough for government work?)

"I'll bring back affordability!" (Inflation is up since Trump 2.0, even before he started the war that has sent energy prices soaring)

"I will erase the deficit!"---from a 2016 promise (He's presided over a $10,400,000,000,000 increase in the debt, counting term #1)

"America will be respected again (sic)" (Everybody hates the US now, except maybe the gas station chief Putin)

"America was dead as a doornail under Biden, and now the hottest country in the world" (4th Q 2024 GDP +2.8%, 4th Q 2025 GDP .7%...can a doornail be 'deader'?)

"Only I can do it!" (Depends on what he means by 'do it'. If crash the world economy and make the US a pariah and/or a laughing stock, many people are saying nobody does it better than Trump)

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

Not at all, reading the pathetic Trump deranged lamentations from Americas powerless enemies and their net sock puppets is the source of great amusement with me.

Hey watch this: Do you think Iran was a threat to the USA?

The Trump administration claimed Iran was an imminent threat. If you have to lie your way into a war, maybe it wasn't justifiable in the first place.

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

You oppose the war? You support Iran then?

If you substituted Iraq for Iran, this would be exactly the kind of comment that was used to justify the Iraq war.

1 minute ago, Alan Zweibel said:

If you have to lie your way into a war, maybe it wasn't justifiable in the first place.

I used to think that too, but it appears things are not that simple.

Just because they don't reveal the real reason they started a war does not (necessarily) mean the war is not justified.

Maybe some things Trump cannot say to the general public because it would undermine national security, for one thing. You don't want to be revealing all your cards to enemies who want you dead ....

You do some of the heavy lifting. Try to come up with a coupla 2-3 reasons they may not state everything explicitly to the public.

Anyway, no matter what Trump says or does, 50% of the US population wants him dead. People wanted him dead before he started the war, so why does he have to explain everything to you? You will still find reasons to hate him and try to get him impeached.

5 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

If you substituted Iraq for Iran, this would be exactly the kind of comment that was used to justify the Iraq war.

I don't know if this is true, but Saddam was put there by the US/UK ??

And then later when his "useful idiot" role was done, they decided to remove him?

Crazy insane stuff this mad mad world of geopolitics.

If the CIA wants to put you in power, run for your life !!

https://archive.globalpolicy.org/iraq-conflict-the-historical-background-/us-and-british-support-for-huss-regime.html

US intelligence helped Saddam's Ba`ath Party seize power for the first time in 1963. Evidence suggests that Saddam was on the CIA payroll as early as 1959, when he participated in a failed assassination attempt against Iraqi strongman Abd al-Karim Qassem. In the 1980s, the US and Britain backed Saddam in the war against Iran, giving Iraq arms, money, satellite intelligence, and even chemical & bio-weapon precursors.

9 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Try to come up with a coupla 2-3 reasons they may not state everything explicitly to the public.

1 We don't know what the <expletive deleted> we are doing.

2 We don't know what the <expletive deleted> we are doing.

3 We don't know what the <expletive deleted> we are doing.

8 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

I didn't see any mention of any increase in taxes to pay for it.

No doubt it will be funded from the vast revenue to come from the tariffs...

You see, there is a concept of a plan!

6 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Got it. More fun to screech.

You dont think we should replenish our stocks after two weeks of target practice? We might have to slap around someone else

‘Forever wars’!

And nobody twisted your arm to admit it.

2 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

‘Forever wars’!

And nobody twisted your arm to admit it.

Yeah, but even though Trump started this war, I'm still not convinced that he is on board with the "forever wars" .... I don't think Trump has the same mentality as the Neo-Cons.

I will still leave some room for doubt that he is trying to extricate the US from that system .... but maybe he has to tie up loose ends first.

23 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

I used to think that too, but it appears things are not that simple.

Just because they don't reveal the real reason they started a war does not (necessarily) mean the war is not justified.

Maybe some things Trump cannot say to the general public because it would undermine national security, for one thing. You don't want to be revealing all your cards to enemies who want you dead ....

You do some of the heavy lifting. Try to come up with a coupla 2-3 reasons they may not state everything explicitly to the public.

Anyway, no matter what Trump says or does, 50% of the US population wants him dead. People wanted him dead before he started the war, so why does he have to explain everything to you? You will still find reasons to hate him and try to get him impeached.

Well, wouldn't you expect that the intel community would know 'some things'?

The intel community's assessment was that Iran posed no "imminent" threat. This was restated---not just by DNI Gabbard in her written (but not oral opening remarks, as she claims she took it out "to save time")---but by resigned head of NCTC ChIef Joe Kent, who appeared yesterday in a Tucker Carlson interview saying there was no intelligence suggesting Iran had any plan to attack the US or any US ME bases.

Nobody is hiding anything to protect "sources and methods". It was and is a war of choice.

I guess we have to fall back on Trump's"hunches". Or maybe his friend John told him? Most likely Rubio had it right on Day 1, that Israel dragged the US and Trump into it. Trump is so easy to manipulate, even Kim Jong-un could do it. As for Bibi, I wouldn't be surprised if he reminded Trump that Bush II's approval rating popped to 80% after he invaded Iraq. Trump is all about two things only (for those who haven't yet caught on): the greater glory of Trump, and the greater wealth of Trump.